Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-20
M0OL.GROMERS.
They Protest Against a Reduction In the
Protective Tariff.

Several days ago call was issued for
| wool-growers meeting, which read as fol-
| lows
SACRAMENTO, December II, 1887.
Call for meeting of wool-growers and deal
ers to be held at Grangers Hall, Ienth and
streets, Sacramento, on Monday, December 18TH,
| at IL o. clock A. NJ.
Every wool grower is urgently requested to be
present and protect his own interests There
are similar meetings being held all over the
| United States, attended by prominent WOOL
growers regardless of political parties
The object OF the meeting being to discuss
| President Cleveland's proposed tarln measures
1 by placing wool on the free list, ana 10 drait
| resolutions to be forwarded to Washington IN
protest of same if such is the desire OF the meet
| ing. The meeting will be addressed by able
| speakers.
! This meeting is called and Endorsed by ]. II.
| Glide, Charles Trayer, George W hancock,
! F. L. Circuit, W. s Cothrin, E. II. Tryon, James
\ Kaysburg, J. H. Miller, W. r. Gallup ana many
other prominent wool growers and dealers.
At IL A N. yesterday the hall was well
filled with representative wool-growers
throughout the Sacramento and San Joa-
gum valleys. extending as far north as
Mendocino. Among the prominent sheep
men present were noted: ]. H. Glide, W.
G. Brown, Captain Wilbur, T. NJ. Gin
shaw, Z. H. Ward, L. L. Mccoy, George
! Champlin, Frank L. circuit, Louis Meiss,
! c. NJ. Traver, H O. PuringtoD, J. n. Beck
| ford, William Mitchell, L. II. Tryon, Mrs.
| I. S. Monch. j. II. Fitzpatrick, w. r. Gallup
and others, representing in all over 100000
| sheep.
| The meeting was called to order by r.
I. Devlin, representing James kaseberg, of
Placer county, an owner of upwards of
10000 sheep. In calling the meeting to
order Mr.. Deylin made short address, in
which he said
| The question at last has come to the front in
this country, shall we or shall we not be free
| trade nation. 1t is question that perhaps, SO
| far as wool is concerned affects California more
| than any other State in the Union. We desire
10 retain the slight protective tariff that gives
| life to our industry. common sense view of
| the question shows us that without protective
tariff many of our industries will languish and
! die. So long ago as the administrations OF Mad
! ison and Monroe the necessities of protective
| tariff were spoken Of and the wisdom of that
| policy is what has made us the richest, most
| important and influential nation on the globe.
In those early days we produced the raw mate
rial, which had to be exported to foreign lands,
and the manufactured goods imported. If war
came along and we were shut off from our
source of supplies, it was readily seen how
much we would suffer Under a system of
grown in wealth until to-day the United
States ranks first IN everything that
| goes toward making up prosperous country, q
happy and contented people. Here every man
is his neighboIs peer. Even the poorest enjoy
what in the old country would be called iuxu-
ries, but which in our own are regarded only as
the necessaries of life. Why should we go back
to a state of affairs that viii make us Door?
Why adopt Il system of revenue disastrous to
| home industry and in the interest of the labor
ing classes of foreign powers? They use the old
argument that the poorer classes would be able
| to buy their wooden fabrics cheaper, but lose
| sight of the fact that labor would be greatly
! reduced thereby. 1t is the old story of the
Kentucky statesman who, when speaking upon
free trade, said Mr.. President if we had free
trade the material used in your suit of clothes
| could be bought for 81 yard less than you pay
of the free-trader was knocked completely out
when the honest Kentuckian replied: IAN
wool, and only IS cents yard % Some years
| ago the protective tariff on steel rails it was
| thought, would work hardship on our country.
Did it? No, sir. The European manufacturer
ground down his labor made the minimum of
cost so low that they even then with the protect
I've tariff could compete with our American man
ufacturers. Take off tariff, and Immediately YOU
reduce all American labor from so to 70 per
cent; in fact, American labor will be thrown
out of the market No country can be happy
and prosperous that is not manufacturing
community We raise more food products than
our country can consume. Turn the manufact-
uring people into agricultural pursuits and see
how soon it will be that labor will go down to a
| price that the farm hand could not buy wooden
goods, no matter how cheap they were sold.
| Statistics show that we export more than we i'm
| port. The balance of trade is on our side
| There is a constant pour of gold from Europe to
| the existing state of affairs would be immedi-
| ately changed, and from the first nation of the
world we would become the last, and from the
| richest and most prosperous people we would be-
| come the poorest and most unhappy. California
| is comparatively a new State and the center of
attraction to-day, not only IN the United States,
| but throughout the world. Our principal pro-
ducts, barring our yield of precious metals are
wool. wine and raisins. Take off our protective
tariff and you at once turn our fertile fields and
productive wales into veritable saharas You
take from us that which has made US; YOU take
from us what is ours and what the good of the
country demands we should have you at once
arrest immigration and turn the tide of pros
perity elsewhere, Capital will seek elsewhere
for investment than in the wool. wine and
raisin products of California. 1t is duty,
the duty of our State and nation, to see TO
it that our members in Congress and those in
the executive offices of the nation do not dis
criminate against our own people, and in the
interest of those of the impoverished nations of
Europe. Take of this tariff and you drive the
wool men out of business. They cannot com
pete with the wool-grower of Australia, who has
as acres of apPsS LABOR and
! 1t means the throwing out of employment of
thousands of American laborers, men and
women; ii means the stopping forever of the
wheels ofmanufactories that are the sole support
| of many thriving manufacturing centers; it
| means desolation and want in our
own country. The American manu-
| decay and tumble to ruins; the mill hands must
| seek other oyeIcrowded industries it means
| StarVatlOD ana want. Inc whole matter q
nut shell means reduction in wages. If a re-
duction ii one line then a reduction in all, for
competition makes the price. We believe that
the future prosperity of this country depends
on those who earn their daily bread by the
| sweat of their brow. This protective tariff not
only protects the tradesman, but it protects the
entire prosperity of the country We would be
! no better OFF to-day than the countries of Eu-
rope were it not for our protective tariff. We're
| the duty taken off of manufactured goods to-
day we would have to compete with the serf
Lob n AGTn No AfnfNf
issue such as we have not had to meet since the
| organization of the Republic. 1t is a question
of great importance, one that must be met by
thorough organization.
The next thing in order was the election
of officers. Hon. j. H. kirkpatrick, of
Stanislaus, was elected Chairman, and L.
| L. Mccoy, of Tehama county, Secretary
A Committee on Resolutions was ap-
| pointed as follows: E. H. Ward and George
| Champlin, of Tehama county; r. T. Dew
| lin, F. L. circuit and E H. Tryon, Sacra-
mento county, and J. H kirkpatrick, of
| Stanislaus.
A recess was taken until 1:30 P. NJ.
On reassembling the committee made the
| following report, which was unanimously
adopted:
Resolred, By the wool-growers of the State of
| California:
l. The wool industry of California and of the
4 United States is one that has given employment
| 10 d large NUMBER OF people, mas enabled the
American manufacturer to manufacture goods
| from American products, and is one so extensive
| that to cripple it would injuriously affect the
| industrial interests of the country.
| ,. That reduction of the duty on imported
wool would practically abolish wool growing in
California as it is Improbable for the wool pro
| ducer to compete, by paying the present stand
| ard of wages with the cheap labor and against
| cheaper ranges in other countries
| 3. That with the duty of wool decreased the
small farmer who heretofore has derived a
profitable revenue from wQQlraisirg would be
! compelled to abandon this pursuit, as The re-
duction of tariff would fall most heavily on
| him.
| 4. That over 900, 900 people as shown by the
| last census, are engaged in raising wool, and
| when the large number of people who are de-
pendent on these, and are engaged in manufact-
| uring wooden pre- ducts are considered, the vast
| amount of capital invested and the large pro-
| portion of our people whose prosperity and in
| many cases whose existence depends upon the
continued existence of this industry which can
be done only by the retention of the present
duty, can be seen, to cripple this industry is
| to cripple the country.
5. The amount of duty is so inconsiderable
| amounting to only 10 cents per capita that no
one would be benefited by its reduction.
| 6. That Australia now prohibits, and for four
| years last past prohibited the importation of
| American Merino sheep, and that it would be
the hight of folly to thrkw our markets open to